Manfredo v. Manfredo’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Crawford v. Carlisle (1921), Whiteman v. Taber (1919)
31 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cutting v. . Cutting · Ralston v. Turpin · Jones v. Brooks · Zimmerman v. Frushour · Scarbrough v. Scarbrough
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is for the common security of womankind that gifts procured by husbands, and purchases made by them, from their wives, should be scrutinized with a close and vigilant suspicion, and that the court, upon the appearance of the slightest circumstance of suspicion, should require of the husband satisfactory proof that the transaction resulted from the ‘pure, voluntary, and well-understood’ act of the mind of the donor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crowder v. Crowder
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.